NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 212, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Y -- INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR PAINTING SOL RFO5-01192-110 DUE 012399 POC Donna Broderick, Contract Administrator, Phone (301)286-8637, Fax (301)286-0247, Email Donna.J.Broderick.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Cynthia Tart, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-7663, Fax (301)286-0247, Email Cynthia.L.Tart.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#RFO5-01192-110. E-MAIL: Donna Broderick, Donna.J.Broderick.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA/GSFC plans to issue a Request for Offers for all labor, materials, equipment, and supervision necessary to provide interior and exterior painting. The interior painting includes: painting of plaster, gypsum wall board, and masonry surfaces where they occur as walls, partitions, ceilings, priming, wood or metal surfaces where they occur as trim, doors, door frames, window sash, window frames, duct work, cable trays, conduit, etc. and the application of finish coats. The exterior painting includes: hand tool cleaning, preparation of surfaces and painting such as but not limited to wood fascias, siding, soffits and trim, ferrous or galvanized steel railings, stairs, doors, piping, trim, structural steel, conduit, utility boxes, use of high pressure water blasting, concrete or masonry where they occur as exterior walls, retaining systems, foundations, pedestals miscellaneous metal surfaces such as but not limited to metal siding, ferrous and non-ferrous steel surfaces, abrasive blasting as required for preparation of concrete and masonry surfaces, commercial grade blast cleaning, and the application of finish coats. The order of magnitude for the procurement is between $500,000 and $1,000,000. This procurement is a total 8(a) set-aside. The SIC Code and small business size standard for this procurement are 1721 and $7,000,000, respectively. The Defense Material System Priority Rating for this procurement is DO-C2. The anticipated release date of the RFO is on or about December 23, 1998 with an anticipated offer closing date of on or about January 22, 1999. The firm date for receipt of bids or offers will be stated in the RFO. All qualified responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency. An ombudsman has been appointed -- See Internet Note "B". The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet. These documents will be in Microsoft Office Suite (Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, or PowerPoint 4.0) format and will reside on a World-Wide Web (WWW) server, which may be accessed using a WWW browser application. The WWW address, or URL of the NASA/GSFC Business Opportunities page is http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/class.html. Prospective offerors shall notify this office of their intent to submit an offer. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site and/or the CBD for the release of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation and amendments (if any). Hard copies of specifications and drawings may be obtained from the Bid Distribution office; however, the closing date for the hard copy received shall be the same as the solicitation, inclusive of any amendments, released on the Internet. Any referenced notes can be viewed at the following URL: http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasanote.html. Posted 12/11/98 (D-SN279471). (0345)

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